Would love some feedback--Thank you!

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I've been slowly building up my portfolio here on Alamy and am hoping that some of you might find the time to offer me some constructive criticism. I do know that it is quite small, making me a tiny fish in a very large and talented pool, and I don't have many people shots, but is there any other help you can give me? I am working on my tagging (and going back to my first entries to add)--I think I started out with not enough but am wondering if now I'm adding too much? Any advice is most appreciated! Thank you in advance for your time.

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You have some very nice images, Kelly, and I think the captions and tags look fine too. One thing I noticed is that you haven't included alternative tags for the US - it is probably worth including USA, and United States of America, as some customers might search using those keywords.

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Some smashing pictures, the english Muffin with melting butter (PREP82) is timed just right. Just enough melted butter running into the muffin. It tells a simple story well.

New contributors to Alamy often start with submiting their favourite pictures which is fine but not as business like as it could be. Follow Ed's advice, if you want a finacially viable portfolio find what the market wants and your locality supplies.

If Ed and Chuck like your pictures, its only the business you've got to crack.

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a reasonable price? My brother-in-law had a crab boat in Bellingham in the 70's and 80's and it

was just take the boat out and pull up some dinner.....

Hi Chuck,

Compared to catching your own, it's spendy, but I think price is still pretty fair, as long as you stay away from places like Pike Place Market! I have noticed them getting much smaller. Two good crabs used to easily feed four of us, now we need three. Several local grocers have commented on that in the last couple of years. I also think the seasons are shorter and fewer locations available for non-commercial crabbers. Must admit, I am now hungry for crab, some really good sourdough, and that bottle of wine. I have been here in Washington for 30 years but grew up in the Bay Area. I miss that SF sourdough!

On 05/08/2019 at 13:34, LawrensonPhoto said:

And to the OP, where's the people in your pictures?

You are right, and I did mention in my original post that I have very few images with people. I am, without a doubt, NOT a newspaper-style editorial or a lifestyle photographer and I know that hurts my sales chances. People are tough for me as I am very, very much an introvert. Will need to work on that :-)